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Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Behavior in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2021
In this paper, we use Japanese micro data to examine what characteristics borrowing-constrained households have and whether borrowing constraints have an important influence on household consumption behavior. We identify borrowing-constrained households using three different indicators, some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249189
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Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Behavior in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori - 2005
In this paper, we use Japanese micro data to examine what characteristics borrowing-constrained households have and whether borrowing constraints have an important influence on household consumption behavior. We identify borrowing-constrained households using three different indicators, some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467118
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Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Behavior in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2005
In this paper, we use Japanese micro data to examine what characteristics borrowing-constrained households have and whether borrowing constraints have an important influence on household consumption behavior. We identify borrowing-constrained households using three different indicators, some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063140
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The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986694
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The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987329
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The Impact of Pre-marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456265
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Borrowing constraints and consumption behavior in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2005
In this paper, we use Japanese micro data to examine what characteristics borrowing-constrained households have and whether borrowing constraints have an important influence on household consumption behavior. We identify borrowing-constrained households using three different indicators, some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332452
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Explaining foreign holdings of Asia's debt securities: The Feldstein-Horioka paradox revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko; Nomoto, … - 2015
the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher riskadjusted returns, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421476
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IS imbalances and current account surpluses in Japan: In memory of Professor Ronald I. McKinnon
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2015
In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and … until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and … persistent current account surpluses were due primarily to Japan's large and persistent IS imbalances (the excess of saving over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421478
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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004
In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332193